NEWS and UPGRADING entries for PR #1309

2 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 2cd1ee95b6..81242d12a8 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -231,6 +231,7 @@
   . Fixed bug #69686 (password_verify reports back error on PHP7 will null
     string). (Anthony)
   . Added Windows support for getrusage(). (Kalle)
+  . Removed hardcoded limit on number of pipes in proc_open(). (Tony)
 
 - Streams:
   . Fixed bug #68532 (convert.base64-encode omits padding bytes).
diff --git a/UPGRADING b/UPGRADING
index 288639b70e..6d05701948 100644
--- a/UPGRADING
+++ b/UPGRADING
@@ -577,6 +577,10 @@ Other
     acceptable classes: 
     unserialize($foo, ["allowed_classes" => ["MyClass", "MyClass2"]);
 
+- proc_open():
+  The maximum number of pipes used by proc_open() was previously limited by
+  hardcoded value of 16. This limit is now removed and the number of pipes is
+  effectively limited by the amount of memory available to PHP.
 
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 6. New Functions